Lena emerged as the German contributor to ESC from a TV casting show called "Unser Star für Oslo" ("Our star for Oslo") aka USFO. Asked for the relevance of ESC she poetically answered:
My life is an alley with many trees at the roadside. Some of them are small and will grow in the future. Oslo (=ESC) is already a huge tree and will stay big, but it's only one of the trees.